Description:
The Engineering Fundamentals range enables students to gain an understanding of the principles of engineering by the process of learning via experimentation.
The Engineering Fundamentals Gears kit includes a selection of gears to enable students to understand their unique advantages and characteristics. This kit includes the following gears to allow students to test each set of gears and visualise their different characteristics:-
Spur gears
Bevel gears
Worm gears
Gear systems
Single gears
Compound gears
Idler gear
Rack and pinion
Experimental Content:
- Introduction to gear ratio, velocity ratio, efficiency of gears and mechanical advantage
- The advantages and disadvantages of different gears
- Transmission of motion between shafts
- Gear Types:
Spur gear – parallel shafts
Bevel gear – perpendicular shafts
Worm gear – perpendicular overlapping shafts - Rack and pinion – convert circular motion to linear motion
- Characteristics of spur gears, including single and compound gear trains and the ‘idler’ gear
- Gear terminology such as pitch diameter, number of teeth and centre distance
